A benefit of membership of the Orwell Society is attendance at the Annual General Meeting each April. These meetings discuss the position of the Society, hear reports from significant members of the Committee, see the presentation of the annual Dystopian Fiction Prize, and finally allow members to socialise and discuss their interests. And there…Read more Our Speakers 2015-2018

One of the benefits of membership of the Orwell Society is participation in the annual Orwell Walk. Lead by an expert, such walks explore the streets, districts and haunts known by George Orwell during different times in his life. We publish reports of these events and announce them on our Facebook page and Twitter stream.…Read more Paris and London 2018

Our American correspondent Carol Biederstadt crossed the continent from her East Coast base wondering what a small company in Spokane, Washington State, could offer in a production of 1984. Read on and discover that she found a production that was not only "both current and timeless", but one that required an even larger vocabulary. Re-Educating…Read more ‘1984’ in Spokane

A comparison between Josef Goebbels' intentions, as shown by some of his diary entries, and George Orwell's extrapolation of wartime propaganda through newsreels, looking at the atrocities in Orwell's fictional account with the actual events described by Goebbels. For nearly half a century, from the 1920s to the 1970s, much of the world got…Read more Dr Goebbels’ Newsreels

After much research, enormous effort and long labour David Ryan's George Orwell On Screen is now available. Published by McFarland, it has an introduction by A L Kennedy, who delivered the Orwell Lecture in 2017. * * Among the subjects covered, in chronological order, in George Orwell On Screen are adaptations, documentaries and docudramas on…Read more Orwell on Screen

Ruth Pitter's name appears in the biographies of George Orwell as the Southwold friend who found him lodgings in London, when the would-be writer decided to place himself closer to the contacts and possible contracts that would make life as writer possible. * Ruth Pitter was born in 1897 and had been a friend of…Read more Ruth Pitter

As we approach Banned Books Week 2018 we consider George Orwell and his struggle against oppression and silence. That took the form of essays such as "The Prevention of Literature", and more practical efforts. It is thought that the only organisation in which George Orwell took a organising role was the Freedom Defence Committee. Steve…Read more Orwell and Freedom